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Artist ANDRES SERRANO
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His 1987 photograph, "Piss Christ", showed the figure of Christ on a cross, in a pool of urine.
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Artist ANDRES SERRANO. His 1987 photograph, "Piss Christ," showed the figure of Christ on a cross, in a pool of urine. It was one of the controversial art works which provoked a storm from the political-right that ended up in the halls of Congress. His work was denounced on the Senate floor by Senator Jesse Helms who then began a crusade against the National Endowment for Arts. SERRANO has a new exhibit of photographs taken of bodies in a morgue. (This interview continues into the second half of the
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